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Though the original Shakespeare & Company—which opened in 1919 and served as a hangout for American expats like Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein—closed in 1940, the shop that now bears its name has become a beloved destination in its own right. Founder George Whitman wanted to evoke the atmosphere of the earlier shop, and decades later, it still has the feeling of a charming, cluttered place where artists and literary types might pull up a chair and hang out for a while.

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This iconic bookstore, founded by American expat Sylvia Beach, is known as being the center of the 1920s and 1930s literary scene, where then-unknown writers like Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald met and mingled. Now, it's still the best place in Paris for English-language books.